Brian A. Facey
Year called to the bar: 1993
Partner, co-Chair of Blakes’ Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment practice. Relationship partner for a number of the firm’s major clients. Advises on all aspects of competition law and advises foreign companies, countries and funds on Canada’s foreign investment rules. Highly ranked in all of the major surveys as a leading regulatory and cross-border lawyer. On the Executive Committee of the Canadian Bar Association’s National Competition Law Section. Co-author of a leading treatise on competition law, entitled Competition and Antitrust Law: Canada and the United States. Significant client matters include Agrium Inc. in connection with its offer for CF Industries Holdings, Inc.; Merck & Co., Inc. with respect to its US$41.1 billion merger with Schering-Plough Corporation; Suncor Energy Inc. with respect to its $43 billion merger with Petro Canada; Labatt Brewing Company Limited with respect to its $200 million acquisition of Lakeport Brewing Income Fund; Superior Propane in Canada’s leading merger efficiencies case; and various cartel cases, including the international vitamins cartel. Admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1993. Holds an LLM from Georgetown University, an LLB from the University of British Columbia and a BA (Hons. econ.) from the University of Toronto.
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